The American plastic artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol (1928-1987) played a crucial role in the birth and development of the Pop art.
Warhol gained worldwide fame for his work in painting, avant-garde cinema, and literature and acted as a liaison between artists and intellectuals, as well as between aristocrats, community figures LGBT, Hollywood celebrities, models, bohemians and all kinds of characters Urban.
Hand drawing, painting, engraving, photography, screen printing, sculpture, film and music were all means through which Warhol spoke to the world.
His revolutionary works positioned him as one of the most influential artists of the XNUMXth century.
In 1949 he began his career as an illustrator in magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Seventeen and The New Yorker.
For 1962 he opened his first exhibition in New York in which he included his famous works Diptych of Marilyn, Cans of Campbell Soup, 100 bottles of cola y 100 dollar bills.
Warhol progressively eliminated the expressionist features of his works until he reduced his projects to serial repetitions of popular elements from the culture of the masses and consumerism.
During this time, Warhol founded his studio The Factory, through which artists, writers, models, musicians and underground celebrities of the moment passed.
Coca-Cola bottles, soup cans became recurring themes in the American's work.
Andy also starkly portrayed real-life situations like accidents, funerals, suicides, street fights; from this theme arises electricchair, one of his emblematic works.
In 1963 he began a film career based on visual repetition and a strong load of sexual and erotic content. Kiss (1963) Empire (1964) chelsea girls (1966) are part of his production.
During the 70s, Warhol immortalized characters such as Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Michael Jackson and Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong in his works.
